Automatic subtitles?

[Sanderholm]

Is it any possibility to get the subtitles automaticly?
If I play movie.avi file and have movie.srt in the same folder, then I want it to be shown automaticly..
How can I do this? :S

[zcot]

the answer is yes

http://www.videolan.org/doc/

VLC Play-Howto

chapter 3 I believe..

[Sanderholm]

I must be blind, but I can't find it in chapter 3! :S

[InterClaw]

Neither can I. It just says that subtitles are disabled by default. It seems you need to manually enable them every time. They are detected and "prepared" alright - i.e. the track is available in the menu, but you still have to select it for it to be displayed.

I messed around a bit with the command line:

vlc.exe movie.avi --sub-file movie.srt

This yielded a selected "Track 1" and the subfile was present in the Stream and media info dialogue too as "Stream 2", BUT no subtitles were displayed however. Nothing happened even when I manually disabled and re-enabled them in the menu either. Furthermore, using the command line above entails general instability like VLC exiting itself if stopping and playing the movie again and when exiting manually vlc.exe remaining in the task manager pounding away at full CPU load.

Something's not right here.

(Using 0.8.2 and Windows XP SP2)

[The DJ]

You can set a preferred language for subs, and then if sub tracks are available in that language, the first one will be selected.

Alternatively you can set in the preferences to automatically select track 0 (or 1) instead of disabled (-1)